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/ Oourt Kimbolton And Society . By The F...
for which you have cast me into many miseries and yourself into many cares . the But rest I forg , I ive commend you all , unto and devoutl you Mary y pray , our that dau God ghter will , beseeching forgive you you also to . be For a
my good maids father , and unto to her give , as them I hav marriage e always portions desired . , which I entreat is not you much also , to they consider being I I their but three due . lest For otherwise all my other they servants should , be I ask in you want for . one Lastl year ' I s vow pay more that mine than 1 f
eyes desire , you above all things . Farewell . " y , J immediatel The king y is for said Chappuis to have read , and this also letter for with Lad tears y Willoug . He hb sent y . | I
no She Sp _& second in was and the had summons Maria married de to Salazar a hasten gentleman who to her accompanied of d the ing Court mistress Cath . She erine . needed Henry from | | |
begged Chappuis to ride down to Kimbolton y and carry to I Catherinewith his lovesuch comfort as a countryman _, and |
ecclesiastic , could alone bring , . But Lady Willoughby would not | tarry for the cardinal . Before the light next morning she was |
staid on the her road and ; she ahout was six thrown o ' clock from on the the saddle wintry , but evening nothin she | g 1
reached the , castle gate . I Cardinal Chappuis arrived late the next day and had | an
interview with Catherine . The presence of friends revived the § j dying woman , she rallied a little . |
the " poor But on lad the y dy 6 ing th , in she the was midst much of worse her wom . The en , with night the passed Cardinal heavil whisperin y away g > j | } those prayers Castilian for her accents soul , and which Lady recalled Willoug her hb youth y breathing . At two peace o'clock in | | her she ear died , in
in Lady Willoughby ' s arms . , , | | In her last earthly momentsCatherine may have said to j
, * Chappins , as Shakespeare has so beautifully imag | ined her saying , — |
" Remember me , | i Out Say In all , of his humility this long world trouble unto Tell his now hi him is ghness passing in death ; , I blessed him ' 4 f |
For so I will . Min . e eyes grow , dim . Farewell . " , i | Bthe king's desireCatherine was bnried in Peterborough _* _J- j
and after all that was , mortal of her had been laid within its | , walls , with every honour which the king could confer , the city | |
was created a bishop ' s see , and the abbey was made a cathedral I ] church . " When I am dead , 11 f |
With Let me maiden be used flowers with honour that all ; the strew world me over know | | if , may I was a chaste wife to my grave . " ' ii fj
Our space forbids farther extracts . The volumes are so rich Ii in There anecdote are som and e curious illustrations particulars that th relative ey will to well the repay earl perusal days of . j I
y queen Elizabeth , —chance memorials of some of her court . I
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140 Notices Of Books. |
140 NOTICES OF BOOKS . |
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/68/
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